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Kurt Nimmo
February 10, 2009
It's another shot across the bow of the Constitution: the White House has announced it will micromanage the census. It is said Obama and crew — you can almost hear Rahm Emanuel cracking his knuckles in Obama's ear — decided to lord over the census after California Rep. Barbara Lee, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, and Hispanic groups complained to the White House about Judd Gregg, the Republican senator from New Hampshire slated to head the Commerce Department. Lee, the Caucus, and Hispanic groups complained Gregg couldn't be trusted to conduct to run the census, at least not to their liking, and in response the Obama administration hijacked the census.
|Mary Ann Akers of the Washington Post cited a senior Republican Senate aide who declared that letting the census "be run out of Rahm's office is like putting PETA in charge of issuing hunting permits."
On February 6, White House spokesman Laena Fallon said: "From the first days of the transition the census has been a priority for the president, and a process he wanted to reevaluate. There is historic precedent for the director of the census, who works for the Commerce Secretary and the president, to work closely with White House senior management — given the number of decisions that will have to be put before the president. We plan to return to that model in this administration."
In short, the Obama administration plans to violate the Constitution and the law. According to Article I, Section 2 the Constitution: "The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct." As for the Law, Congress decreed the following:
The Secretary [of Commerce] shall perform the functions and duties imposed upon him by this title, may issue such rules and regulations as he deems necessary to carry out such functions and duties, and may delegate the performance of such functions and duties and the authority to issue such rules and regulations to such officers and employees of the Department of Commerce as he may designate.
Title 13 of the U.S. Code, Chapter 1, Subchapter I, § 2, entitled "Bureau of the Census," states: "The Bureau is continued as an agency within, and under the jurisdiction of, the Department of Commerce."
Not under the jurisdiction of Obama and Rahm Emanuel, but the Department of Commerce. The Director of the Census by law must be within the Department of Commerce and under the direction of the Senate approved Secretary of Commerce who then reports to the president.
According to the Chicago Daily Observer, the Secretary of Commerce will not report directly to Obama, but his designee — feared by Republicans to be Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Last week, Mary Ann Akers of the Washington Post cited a senior Republican Senate aide, who declared that letting the census "be run out of Rahm's office is like putting PETA in charge of issuing hunting permits."
For the Democrats, all of this is exceedingly important because census results will determine the redrawing of congressional districts and electoral college numbers and may impact the 2012 elections when Obama could be fighting for reelection and Democrats fighting to hold on to the House and the Senate.
In such matters — considering the composition of government — the integrity of the Constitution and the letter of law come in dead last. Obama is said to be a constitutional scholar. In fact, he has about as much reverence for our founding document as George W. Bush, who infamously said during a meeting with Republican congressional leaders in 2005 that the Constitution is "just a goddamned piece of paper."
Obama may indeed have a soft spot in his heart for the Constitution, not that it matters — he is little more than a front man for the ruling elite who call the shots.
Sabotaging the Constitution has nothing to do with Democrats, Republicans, congressional districts, or the Congressional Black Caucus and Hispanic groups — it has to do with control exercised by our rulers. If the census needs to be fiddled with in order to make sure the globalist agenda remains on track with the current spate of factotums in place, the act of treading on the Constitution is of no account.
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Linebacker Michael Mauti receives the Ed Block Courage Award
Michael Mauti was presented the Ed Block Courage Award on Saturday, March 10. The award honors NFL players who exemplify commitments to the principles of sportsmanship and courage.
Mercedes-Benz Superdome and Smoothie King Center shined colors in honor of Pride Month
On June 28, the Mercedes-Benz Superdome and Smoothie King Center supported Pride Month and shined their colors in honor of the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which served as a catalyst for the gay rights movement.
Photos: New Orleans Saints quarterback Jameis Winston donated $30,000 to help support the Tampa Bay community
Newly signed Saints quarterback
Saints host Social Unification Teambuilding with Up2UsSports
On February 4, the Saints partnered with Up2UsSports to host a team building event for NFL Community Representatives, NOPD officers, and Youth Empowerment Project NOLA to discuss ways to help improve communities locally and around the NFL.
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New Orleans Saints Owner Gayle Benson donates office space to Operation Restoration in Benson Tower
New Orleans Saints Owner Gayle Benson donated office space to Operation Restoration in Benson Tower. Operation Restoration is a non-profit organization committed to supporting women and girls impacted by incarceration, restore their lives, and help them discover new possibilities.
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New Orleans Saints and Pelicans owner Gayle Benson attended the groundbreaking ceremony for The Gayle and Tom Benson Athletic Complex at Delgado Community College and was recognized as the campaign's first and major donor towards its construction on February 6, 2020.
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By William B. Gaudet and Anil Mujumdar
Two continuing issues of local and national importance for federal jurisdiction (or avoiding it) under the Class Action Fairness Act ("CAFA" or the "Act")[1] are "mass actions" brought by "the state" and consolidated actions separately filed in state court to avoid CAFA jurisdiction.
On November 6, 2013, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Mississippi ex rel. Hood v. AU Optronics Corp.[2] The Court's forthcoming opinion is expected to decide whether parens patriae actions are considered mass actions as defined by CAFA.
In Mississippi v. AU Optronics, the State of Mississippi sued various manufacturers and distributors of liquid crystal display ("LCD") panels in state court alleging violations of the Mississippi Consumer Protection Act[3] and the Mississippi Antitrust Act.[4] The defendants removed the matter to federal court pursuant to CAFA, which allows for "removal of a suit to federal court…if the suit qualifies as a 'class action' or 'mass action.'"[5] At issue is whether parens patriae actions, wherein a state has standing to bring an action to remedy injuries suffered by its citizens,[6] meet CAFA's definition of a "mass action" and therefore are removable to federal court.[7] CAFA defines "mass action" as "any civil action…in which monetary relief claims of 100 or more persons are proposed to be tried jointly on grounds that plaintiffs' claims involve common questions of law or fact."[8]
The Fifth Circuit resolved this issue against Mississippi finding that the attorney general's complaint sought redress of injuries both to the state and consumers and thus "the real parties in interest include not only the State, but also individual consumers residing in Mississippi."[9]
In a decision handed down by the Fifth Circuit on December 2, 2013, Hood v. JP Morgan, et. al. 2013 WL 6230960 (5th Cir., Dec. 2, 2013), the court again addressed CAFA jurisdiction in six parens patriae suits brought by the attorney general of Mississippi. Although maintaining its prior holding that the real parties in interest were the citizens of the state, the court found CAFA jurisdiction lacking because no individual plaintiff met the $75,000 amount in controversy.
When courts are evaluating the scope of CAFA's jurisdiction, language matters not just at the pleadings stage, but in the subsequent motion practice as well. In this regard, two recent circuit court cases evidence that the particular wording of plaintiffs' respective motions to coordinate or consolidate can yield drastically different results. For example, in Romo v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.,[10] the court held that the plaintiffs' motion for coordination[11] in state court of various injury lawsuits against the defendant pharmaceutical company, each of which contained fewer than CAFA's 100 plaintiff threshold, did not invoke CAFA's jurisdiction because the plaintiffs did not request a "joint trial." Whereas in Atwell v. Boston Scientific Corp.,[12] the court yielded opposite results from Romo by applying In re Abbott Laboratories, Inc.,[13] to the plaintiffs' similar motion in state court to reassign various transvaginal mesh injury cases against Boston Scientific "to a single Judge for purposes of discovery and trial."[14] At oral argument on the motion to reassign, plaintiffs' counsel argued "that the motion was intended 'to have it assigned to the judge that's going to try the case because of the complexity that's going to occur all the way through'."[15] Here the court found the existence of CAFA jurisdiction because plaintiffs' "counsel's statements revealed the purpose of their motions – a joint assignment in which the 'inevitable result' will be that their cases are 'tried jointly.'"[16] Any plaintiff's counsel seeking to maintain litigation in state court that arguably could be construed as a mass action must carefully plead and move; and contrarily, any defendant's counsel looking for a hook on which CAFA can bite must fastidiously explicate all the plaintiffs' filings and argument in order to find the right words which signal that the litigation is in fact a "mass action" to which CAFA applies.
[1] See 28 U.S.C. §§ 1332(d) and 1453.
[2] No. 12-1036 (U.S. filed February 19, 2013).
[3] See Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-1 et seq.
[4] See Miss. Code Ann. § 75-21-1 et seq.
[5] See State ex rel. Hood v. AU Optronics, Corp., 701 F.3d 796, 799 (5th Cir. 2012).
[6] See e.g., Alfred L. Snapp & Son, Inc. v. Puerto Rico ex rel. Barez, 458 U.S. 592 (1982).
[7] Outside of the Fifth Circuit, appellate courts have held that CAFA does not apply to parens patriae actions. See e.g., Nevada v. Bank of America Corp., 672 F.3d 661, 668 (9th Cir. 2012).
[8] See 28 U.S.C. §§ 1332(d)(11)(B)(i).
[9] State ex rel. Hood v. AU Optronics, Corp., 701 F.3d 796, 800 (5th Cir. 2012).
[10] 2013 U.S. App. Lexis 19527 (9th Cir. September 24, 2013).
[11] The plaintiffs requested coordination pursuant to Cal. Code of Civ. P. § 404, which permits coordination of "all of the actions for all purposes."
[12] 2013 U.S. App. Lexis 23182 (8th Cir. November 18, 2013).
[13] 698 F.3d 568 (7th Cir. 2012).
[14] Atwell v. Boston Scientific Corp., 2013 U.S. App. Lexis 23182 at *4.
[15] Id. at *15-16.
[16] Id. at *16.
Note: This article originally appeared in the Winter 2014 issue of Briefly Speaking. The article contained additional paragraphs appended from another article that were not part of the original article. We regret the error.


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darkstar57 wrote:the overreactions on this board following losses are hysterical. Its like we just got swept out of the playoffs by the bruins again.
No excuse for losing to the Flyers. Not this season.
darkstar57 wrote:Take a deep breath and relax, we started out hot and looked really good but have cooled off that happens over the the ebbs and flows of the season, for all the criticism malkins seams to be getting i think he has actually been playing great, he made about 4-5 passes (including the one on the crosby goal) that made me go wow, Sid needs a new move on breakaways, goalies know he is looking five whole, both breakaway attempts he tried to go 5 hole, not that hard to save.
Agree about Malkin. As for Sid, he simply ran out of time to make a play. The defender was closing in from the other wing, or I think Sid skirts across the crease and goes back-hand upstairs on Emery.


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This blog is a continuation to: Day 125: Hunger Games – –
I commit myself to stop my fear of facing me within the abuse and neglect that I see that I have accepted and allowed and have assisted as in supporting how life on earth exists for the thousands upon thousands who suffer and/or starve to death daily at the hands of our current world/money system.
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I commit myself to forgive and let go of/stop the anger within myself that I realize I have existed as where I have projected blame onto others and within that have contributed to the abuse existent within and as our world, thus, I commit myself to show how the nature of who we are as our thoughts and our thinking process which we participate within, is the glue that is holding the abuse in full force within our world and how through self-forgiveness we are able to support ourself to effectively change, thus I commit myself to realign myself through a self-corrective application to thus redesign and assist myself to become the living change required in order to support a world according to what's best for All.
I commit myself to show how the entertainment industry which we accept and allow within our world is a direct result of and in complete support of our world/money system of which the majority of us as humanity are enslaved to, thus, I commit myself to show how we are not what we've accepted and allowed ourselves to believe ourselves to be as the direction of consciousness simply because it's coming up within us, and that we are capable to stop and direct and commit ourselves to take self-responsibility and establish an environment on earth based upon principles that support All life Equally.
I commit myself to show how there is enough resources available on/from earth to provide for the physical bodies of all living beings, thus no one need to ever go to bed hungry, homeless or abused in any way.
I commit myself to comprehend and thus support an Education system that will be designed to provide everyone with proper skills in reading, mathematics and communication in order to establish a healthy, equal relationship with each other as a humanity, nature and animals so as to provide each with the adequate necessities for a practical living environment.
I commit myself to remaining constant and gentle with myself as I continue my daily walk of The Journey to Life.
"I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that when the Actual FUNCTIONING of the MIND and the Physical Body is Understood, All the Lies of Enlightenment will End and will No Longer form the Foundation from which Cruelty is justified." ~ Bernard Poolman


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INDIANAPOLIS (Nov. 1, 2018) -- A year of great racing and championships were recognized at the season-end Formula 4 United States Championship Powered by Honda banquet in Austin, Texas. With a total of 16 top-10 finishes including four wins, Dakota Dickerson of San Diego was crowned the newest F4 U.S. champion and awarded a comprehensive F3 Americas scholarship valued at more than $230,000 to progress up SCCA Pro Racing's open-wheel championship ladder.
The scholarship included:
- $25,000 cash prize from Phillip's 66 to use on F3 Americas racing expenses
- One-year lease on a Ligier JS F3 chassis from Onroak Automotive North America
- One-year lease on the Honda Civic Type R engine from Honda Performance Development
- Two sets of tires per race weekend from Hankook Tire America
- Paid entries to all F3 Americas events and tests from SCCA Pro Racing
- Marketing package for the 2019 season from SCCA Pro Racing
- A full co-branded suit kit which includes a custom-fit suit, shoes, gloves and Nomex with a carrying bag from Sabelt
- A custom champion's watch from BRM Chronographes
The 2018 F4 U.S. National Champion also received an invitation to the annual FIA Prize-Giving ceremony, uniting champions from every major disciple of motorsport including Formula 1 together to receive their official FIA awards during a unique star-studded gala evening.
"It is great to be able to grab the 2018 F4 U.S. Championship after all the hard work that DC Autosport and I put into the season" said Dickerson, who also broke the record for most consecutive top-10 finishes in F4 at 25."Iam very thankful for Onroak, Honda, Phillips 66 and SCCA Pro Racing for the opportunity to showcase what I can do. Their scholarship will help our season get started in the F3 Americas Championship and I'm looking forward to being able to experience the bigger Ligier Chassis and the Honda Civic Type R powerplant."
In addition to the scholarship and gala invitation, Dickerson was presented with the Cameron Das Pole Position Award presented by Worldeye. Dickerson collected four fast-lap times and five poles, the most of any F4 U.S. competitor this season. His consistent speed throughout the year earned him the award and the $2,000 end-of-season contingency prize from Worldeye. Inaugural champion Cameron Das still holds the record for most fast laps and poles set in an F4 season.
"Cameron is a great driver and it was an honor to be recognized by Worldeye," said Dickerson. "The DC Autosport with Cape Motorsports team had an outstanding year with poles and fast laps. We came on strong in the last few rounds of the season, and I know if there is the opportunity to work together next year, we will pick up right where we left off — winning."
DEForce Racing rookie James Raven of Portsmouth, England, placed second in the season-long points battle. Aside from inaugural season, Raven is the highest placing rookie in F4 history to earn a national F4 U.S. title.
Raven claimed seven podium finishes, including a win, along with an additional eight top-10 placements during his first F4 U.S. season.
"Not only were we second in the championship, I was also the Rookie Champion," said Raven. "A massive thanks to DEForce Racing and everyone for the support all year."
Christian Rasmussen of Copenhagen, Denmark, rounded out the championship podium in third. Battling four other competitors for the last championship title, Rasmussen's final drive in the F4 U.S. session at Circuit of the Americas boosted him to the championship podium. Piloting under the red, white, blue and black colors of Jay Howard Driver Development, Rasmussen earned the most wins of any F4 U.S. driver this season with five.
"Thank you to F4 U.S. and all of its series sponsors Honda, HPD, SCCA Pro Racing, Onroak Automotive, Phillips 66 and Ligier for providing a great platform for young races to prove their skills in front of the right people. Also, a huge thanks to the whole Jay Howard Driver Development team," Rasmussen said. "The COTA race was the last race of the season, but 2019 has already begun."
Drivers placing fourth through 10th place were also acknowledged and awarded with cash prizes. The top-10 represented six different countries and six of the 10 were rookies.
Onroak Automotive' s Catherine Crawford presented rookie Arthur Leist of Novo Hamburgo, Brazil, with the Catherine Crawford Most Improved Driver Award and $5,000 for his perseverance throughout the season.
"Arthur Leist has worked very hard to move up the ladder in this championship and we were proud to present him with the Most Improved Driver Award. It's his first year out of karting and in fact, until preparing for this year, he had not actually even tested a single seater race car," said Catherine Crawford. "He had nine straight top-10 finishes, two podiums, one at Pittsburgh, where he also had the fastest lap of the race, and backed up that performance at New Jersey with another third-place finish. Most impressively, he improved his average starting position from 21st at the beginning of the year, climbing all the way to fifth. Crosslink/Kiwi Motorsport has done a wonderful job of teaching, encouraging and helping this young man on his motorsport journey."
Crosslink/Kiwi Motorsport was awarded a custom BRM Chronographes watch for claiming the F4 U.S. overall team championship. The team, composed of mostly rookie drivers (Leist, Car, Blanco, Kaszuba, Conrad Clark of King's Lynn, England, and Aske Nygaard Bramming of Copenhagen, Denmark) and owned by Teena Larsen, Garry Orton and Patrick Flynn, produced top-10 results in all 17 rounds and visited the podium 13 times, securing a total of five wins. Jay Howard Driver Development and DC Autosport took the honors of second and third in the team championship.
The F4 U.S. Championship team title was determined by the team that scored the highest number of points during the season. Points were assigned based on the results from the top-two highest placing cars for each team at each event.
FIA Super License points were awarded to Dickerson, Raven, Rasmussen, Car, Pedersen, Blanco and Wilson by ACCUS co-presidents George Silbermann and Nick Craw.
The FIA Super License is a qualification allowing the license-holder to compete in the Formula One World Championship. The license is issued to drivers who have met the FIA criteria of success in the junior motorsport categories. A competitor must obtain 40 points within a three-year period to apply for a Super License. Dickerson, the points' champion, received 12 Super License points. Subsequent positions earned between 10 and one point depending on their final placement.
The evening concluded with Honda Performance Development adding some Texas-flair to dinner with HPD's Jeff Barrow giving a genuine Stetson cowboy hat to champion Dickerson.
About SCCA Pro Racing:
SCCA Pro Racing is a division of the Sports Car Club of America, Inc. -- a 65,000-member organization dedicated to motorsports. SCCA Pro Racing provides full-service organization, operation and sanctioning for numerous professional racing series such as Trans Am® and Formula E.
About the SCCA Pro Racing F4 U.S. Championship:
FIA F4 is designed as entry-level open-wheel racing for participants, around a contemporary, modern, cost conscious formula. SCCA Pro Racing and its chosen partners that embrace these ideals and support this vision with appropriate technology and products. The selected F4 powerplant is a production-based engine powering the Honda Civic® Type R®, tuned to meet FIA-mandated output of approximately 160 Hp. The engine and the ECU are sealed to provide parity and compliance. The Ligier JS F4 16 carbon fiber chassis is manufactured in the United States by Onroak Automotive North America. From the Hankook Tires, the Honda engine to the Ligier chassis, the F4 U.S. car is assembled and made in the United States.
About Hankook Tire America Corp.
Hankook Tire America Corp. is a growing leader in the U.S. tire market, leveraging investments in technology, manufacturing and marketing to deliver high-quality, reliable products that are safer for consumers and the environment. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Hankook America markets and distributes a complete line of high-performance and ultra-high-performance passenger tires, light truck and SUV tires as well as medium truck and bus tires in the United States. Hankook Tire America is a subsidiary of Hankook Tire Co., Ltd., a Forbes Global 2000 company headquartered in Seoul, Korea, and led by President and CEO Hyun Bum Cho.
Photo: Dakota Dickerson (left) won the 2018 F4 U.S. Championship and was presented with a scholarship valued at $230,000 to progress into F3 Americas for 2019.
Credit: Gavin Baker Photography


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Bean Soup Mix
An attractive bag of this savory mix makes a tasteful gift for a teacher or co-worker— remember to attach the soup recipe with a decorative ribbon or cord.
Total TimePrep: 15 min. Cook: 2 hours 35 min. + standing
Makes8-10 servings
- 1 cup each dried yellow split peas, green split peas, lentils, medium pearl barley, black-eyed peas, small lima beans, navy beans, great northern beans and pinto beans
- 6 cups water
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 large carrot, chopped
- 2 teaspoons chili powder
- 1-1/4 teaspoons salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/2 pound smoked sausage
- 1 can (28 ounces) diced tomatoes, undrained
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- In a large bowl, combine bean mix ingredients. Divide into six batches, 1-1/2 cups each. Store in airtight containers in a cool, dry place for up to 1 year. Yield: 9 cups of mix (six batches of soup-each batch makes 2-1/2 quarts and serves 8-10).
- To make one batch of soup: Place 1-1/2 cups bean mix in a Dutch oven; cover with water by 2 in. Bring to a boil; boil for 2 minutes. Remove from the heat; let stand for 1 hour. Drain, discarding liquid. Return beans to kettle; add water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 1-1/2 to 2 hours or until beans are tender.
- Add the onion, carrot, chili powder, salt, pepper and cloves. Return to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, for 30 minutes. Add sausage, tomatoes and lemon juice; simmer 15-20 minutes longer.


text: « back to directory print Adam Kolber Professor of Law 250 Joralemon Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 (718) 780-0649 | Email | CV Areas of Expertise Criminal LawHealth LawBioethicsNeuroethics Education A.B., Princeton UniversityJ.D., Stanford Law School Biography Courses Publications Noteworthy Professor Kolber writes and teaches in the areas of health law, bioethics, criminal law, and neurolaw and is affiliated with the Law School's Center for Health, Science, and Public Policy and the Center for Law, Language & Cognition. In 2005, he created the Neuroethics & Law Blog and, in 2006, taught the first law school course devoted to law and neuroscience. He has also taught law and neuroscience topics to federal and state judges as part of a MacArthur Foundation grant. Professor Kolber has been a visiting fellow at Princeton University's Center for Human Values and at NYU Law School's Center for Research in Crime and Justice. His work has been frequently discussed in the media, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. Professor Kolber began his academic career on the faculty of the University of San Diego School of Law. Before that, he clerked for the Honorable Chester J. Straub of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practiced law with Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. Professor Kolber received his A.B. from Princeton University and graduated Order of the Coif from Stanford Law School, where he was an associate editor of the Stanford Law Review. Prior to law school, he was a business ethics consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Among his publications, Professor Kolber has written "The Bumpiness of Criminal Law," 67 Alabama Law Review 855 (2016); "Will There Be a Neurolaw Revolution?" 89 Indiana Law Journal 807 (2014); "Against Proportional Punishment," 66 Vanderbilt Law Review 1141 (2013), "Unintentional Punishment," 18 Legal Theory 1 (2012); "The Experiential Future of the Law," 60 Emory Law Journal 585 (2011); "The Subjective Experience of Punishment," 109 Columbia Law Review 182 (2009), and "Therapeutic Forgetting: The Legal and Ethical Implications of Memory Dampening," 59 Vanderbilt Law Review 1561 (2006). Related Links: Faculty News Curriculum


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5 Simple Rules
The one that started it all; Hermione is desperate. Creating a set of rules that keep her going, she tries to stay true... but finds it impossible. Welcome to the journey of an amazing girl that is turning into an amazing young woman with every rule she breaks.
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Olympic tough
What's tough?
Melissa Apodaca is currently training six hours a day with the goal of representing the United States in one of the toughest sports around, freestyle wrestling. The muscular 22-year-old's typical day includes running and lifting weights followed by a couple hours of technique work and sparring.
Think that's tough?
The 2008 Chugiak High graduate does all that training while keeping up with her college courses at Northern Michigan University, where last semester she earned a 4.0 grade-point average.
But even adding up Olympic-caliber training and sterling scholastic marks doesn't begin to scratch the surface on what has qualified as "tough" in the life of Apodaca.
Wrestling with life
To understand Apodaca's drive to make the 2012 Olympics in London, one must first understand where she came from.
Growing up, Apodaca was subjected to poverty, neglect and abuse the likes of which she's still reluctant to detail. Needless to say, her home life was a mess.
"We were basically homeless," Apodaca said during an interview at an Anchorage jiu jitsu center while back in Alaska over the holidays.
Apodaca's single mother cared far more about drugs and alcohol than she did her youngest daughter, Melissa said, leaving the girl to fend mostly for herself. She slept on couches, drifted from house to house and had to play the role of her own parent just to get a basic education.
"I'd always forge my mom's signature so I could go to school," she said.
Her main focus in those days, she said, was to achieve more than her two older sisters — whose lives were derailed early by an all-too-common fate.
"My first goal in life was to make it past ninth grade and not get pregnant by the time I was 16," she said. "Because that would mean I was better than my sisters."
As a way of staying away from her mother, who was living in Soldotna at the time, she began seeking out sports in middle school. She'd play anything she could in order to hang around the school into the evening.
"That kept me away from my home life," she said.
It was while in middle school that Apodaca picked up wrestling, a sport that would prove to be a natural fit for a girl who grew up fighting just to survive.
From the first day on the mat, she knew it was for her.
"I was looking at them and I was like, 'I can take those boys,'" she said.
A new start
Apodaca's family moved to the Anchorage area when she was a freshman in high school, leaving her adrift and without a decent place to call home. But high school was where she would finally find her real family.
When she arrived at Chugiak, Apodaca didn't know anyone. As a shy, often introverted teenager, she had little way of communicating to anyone how bad things were at "home." But as she started joining athletic teams at CHS, Apodaca's coaches began to take notice of the squat, muscular girl who seemed to always be the last person to leave the practice field.
"You could tell she was a little different than our normal kids," said Rachel Smith, a counselor at Bartlett High School, who was then working at Chugiak as a counselor and cross-country running coach.
When Apodaca began opening up about her lack of a real home, teachers and coaches at Chugiak came to her aid. Duncan Shackelford, the school's head football coach, said he and his wife, Wendi, a school resource officer with the Anchorage Police Department, took Melissa in for about six months.
"We all loved Melissa. She was just a good gal who has had some hard luck in her life with things," Shackelford said.
Eventually, Apodaca began to form a particularly close relationship with Smith, who had taken a keen interest in the girl.
"Basically, Melissa and Rachel just kinda bonded," said Rachel's husband, Ben, who was also teaching at Chugiak at the time.
At the start of Melissa's sophomore year, Rachel told the young girl to feel free to call at any time to discuss any problems she might be having.
"The next day, she called and asked if she could live with us for the year," Rachel said.
Melissa had finally found her home.
Coming home
The Smiths took Apodaca in as if she were their own daughter. The couple — high school sweethearts at Chugiak who have been married for 13 years — gave the girl a room of her own and told Melissa she was welcome to stay as long as she liked. She's been there ever since.
"She'll have a room forever in our house," Rachel said.
While hard work in sports came easy to Apodaca, fitting in at school took a little longer. Because of her troubled background, Rachel said Apodaca often came across as awkward at school. It wasn't because Apodaca didn't like talking, Rachel said, it was just that the girl from the broken home just didn't know how to relate to other people.
"She was really shy," Rachel said.
Slowly, however, living with the Smiths helped give Melissa the social skills she needed to be a "normal" teenager, and she began to slowly come out of her shell. Ben said that transformation had much to do with the bond Rachel and Melissa were able to form at home.
"Rachel is so good with her," Ben said. "Just being a female, all that fashion stuff, all the things that females go through."
Far from a shy introvert now, Apodaca, according to Ben, has become outgoing and has learned how to deal with new people and surroundings.
"Now she talks all the time," he said.
Rachel said she and Ben never had any problems with Melissa's behavior at home.
"She's a great kid. She never lied to us about anything," she said. "If she says she walked the dog, she definitely walked the dog."
Apodaca says the support she got from the Smiths — along with the rest of the Chugiak High family — was instrumental in getting her out of her nightmarish home life.
"It was the whole Chugiak teaching community," she said. "That's the reason I love Chugiak High School and feel like I owe people so much."
Shackelford said it was easy for people to want to help Apodaca because of the girl's passionate desire to make herself better.
"It was about, 'Let's help someone who wants to make a success out of their life, someone who wants to be a positive person,'" he said.
'She's a pit bull'
With her home life finally stabilized, Apodaca was free to turn her attention to her budding career as a wrestler — where she had to confront an entirely new set of challenges.
Chugiak is a big-time wrestling school. The wrestling program has won two state team titles and produced more individual Alaska state champions — 57 — than any school in the state. When Apodaca went out for the team, she wasn't exactly welcomed with open arms.
"Of course they're not going to be nice to the only girl on the team," Apodaca said.
Rather than treating her as an equal, the veterans on the team let Apodaca know that they were none too happy to have a girl on the squad. But as the weeks went by, the only girl on the team began to earn her teammates' grudging respect with a rabid work ethic and impressive tolerance for pain and suffering on the mat.
"At first the team didn't really like me that well," she said. "But everyone who was tough stayed with the team, and we ended up being a family."
By the time she was a senior, Apodaca had become one of the most feared wrestlers — boy or girl — on the team. She recalls with pride how she even became one of the team's enforcers, helping to separate the wheat from the chaff.
"I even ran a couple kids off who I didn't think were tough enough," she said.
Ben said Apodaca's hard-nosed attitude is what sets her apart on the mat.
"She's a pit bull," said Ben, who now teaches physical education at Eagle River High.
Chugiak wrestling coach Tom Huffer Jr. said Apodaca was among the hardest workers he's had in his program.
"She was just so passionate about everything she did," Huffer Jr. said.
Shackelford said Apodaca's desire is a rare thing to see in today's teens.
"Wrestling's not a popular sport because it's hard work," he said. "That ain't popular with kids these days."
Apodaca, he said, seemed to attack hardship with uncommon vigor.
"The harder it is, the more she shines. I think she always takes things as a personal affront, a personal challenge," he said. "I see her always wanting to find something that's going to tax her to make her better."
While at Chugiak, Apodaca won an Arctic Winter Games championship in girls freestyle wrestling and was a four-time girls state champ while also wrestling on the boys team. She also played soccer, ran cross-country and even joined the football team, where Shackelford said she never shied away from contact.
"She'd throw her nose right in there," he said.
Ben said Apodaca's relentless nature was "almost annoying" at times, as the girl would do whatever she could to work out and play sports nonstop.
"She'll do anything she can to get to a gym or go to wrestling practice," he said. "It's like, 'Really? You gotta go again?'"
Melissa said she likes to work hard because she's seen the results of taking the easy way out in life.
"It's easy to quit," she said. "It's hard to keep going."
Olympic dreams
Apodaca's prowess on the wrestling mat began to draw big-time attention, and she was invited to train at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., and the U.S. Olympic Education Center at Northern Michigan University. In 2009, she won the U.S. University Nationals and placed third at the World University Games in Spain.
But injuries to her knee and ankle slowed her progress, and she hadn't wrestled in a major competition in more than two years when she entered the U.S. Senior Nationals in December 2011. Ranked the 14th best American at 63 kilograms by USA Wrestling, Apodaca said she wasn't expecting much heading into the tournament.
"I didn't even think I'd place," she said.
The long layoff didn't hurt a bit. Melissa made the finals, losing by fall to 2010 World silver medalist Elena Pirozhkova and earning one of seven spots in the Olympic qualifying tournament, which will be held April 21-22 in Iowa City, Iowa.
Only the winner of the qualifying tournament makes the Olympic team, and Ben said Apodaca knows she's up against some formidable competition. But if she doesn't make the team this time around, he said he's confident Apodaca will one day be an Olympian.
"She'll get it sooner or later. I know she will," he said.
Returning the favor
Apodaca's dreams go much further than becoming an Olympian. On her 21st birthday, she started a program called the "Melissa Apodaca Change Ribbon." The symbol of her fledgling foundation is a blue, purple and teal ribbon that stands for abuse, rape and poverty. She said the goal of the project is to increase awareness of childhood abuse among teachers and students. She wants young people to know it's OK to speak out about abuse at home and for teachers to better recognize when problems are occurring outside of school.
"Just making teachers and children more aware can make a big difference," she said. "Even just that tiny little step could help prevent a lot more child abuse cases."
After she graduates from college, Apodaca said she'd like to start a home to take in other kids who come from challenging home lives.
"I was one of those kids," she said. "If those teachers at Chugiak had never taken me in, I wouldn't be wrestling today."
Apodaca said she continues to work so hard because she believes she has an obligation to use her athletic skills to help others.
"God gave me this talent, and he gave it to me for a reason," she said. "And it's not just wrestling. It's to help kids coming out of a situation like I did."
Rachel said Apodaca's willingness to turn childhood pain into a positive for others is what makes her aspiring Olympian "daughter" so special.
"Her being a wrestler is part of who she is," she said. "But it's not everything about Melissa Apodaca."
Contact Matt Tunseth at 694-2727 or [email protected]


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A Separate Peace
This story appears in the December 1998 issue of HomeOfficeMag.com. Subscribe »
People who run businesses from home are of two distinct minds.
Some need to draw the mental and physical lines that separate home from work so they can make a clear distinction for themselves and their families. Others rail at the thought, and consider artificial boundaries contrary to the whole purpose of being homebased. "When I first started working from home, I tried to block off time when I would work and do nothing else, but I quickly realized that didn't cut it for me," says Diana Salerno, a marketing consultant in Houston. "Ideas flow whether I'm in or out of my work area. I need to able to work on my `home to do' list when I'm in my office, and I need to answer a business call when I'm outside playing with my dog."
On the other hand, those who need to establish clear boundaries agree with Linda Sizemore's assessment that it's too easy for work to intrude upon our home lives, especially when there's a business in the home. Sizemore, a clinical psychologist in Highland Park, Illinois, urges entrepreneurs to set up a system. "When they're working at home, they concentrate on their business. And when they leave their home offices, they do home- or personal-related tasks," she says. "If they can't make this transition clear, their personal lives drop to the lowest rung on the scale, their personal needs don't get met, and they burn out."
Two Lives To Live
If you're of the mind-set that your personal and business lives should remain separate, here are a number of strategies (some of them simply mind games) to help you make the transition from one life to another as clean as possible.
*Dress up your office for business. For Christel Beard, a freelance public relations writer and president of PRowrite, this means putting the name of her business on the door to her San Clemente, California, home office, so that as soon as she opens her office door in the morning, she knows she's at work. Conversely, when she shuts it at night, she's in a different mode entirely.
When Ed Eisen, owner of Eisen & Associates, a marketing consulting firm in Philadelphia, walks into his office, the pictures on the wall project an overriding message--that he'd better get down to business. Work-related photos and mementos are everywhere, and a huge calendar that tracks business appointments eclipses one wall. People seeking clean transitions and boundaries make every effort to keep children's toys out of their offices and work papers out of the dining room.
*Dress yourself for your role. Few who work at home don a suit when they move from the kitchen to their home office. But many people feel they need to be dressed in something other than a robe to get into the mental state of work. One entrepreneur, for instance, relies on shoes to symbolize the transition. Right inside her office door is a pair of comfortable dress shoes, which she slips on when she enters her office for the day. Right outside the door are sneakers; she changes into these when she takes a lunch break or leaves the office for the day. When she's wearing dress shoes, personal issues seem far away, and when she's wearing sneakers, she doesn't think much about work. For her, the change of shoes signals the transition from home to work and back again.
*Organize your life so you're not jumping back and forth between home and work. Whether or not we want it to happen, it's almost impossible to keep personal thoughts from seeping into our home offices or, conversely, business thoughts from spilling over into the kitchen. One way to handle thoughts about what has to be done in one part of the house while you're in another is to keep two separate "to do" lists. The "work to do" is kept in the living part of your home, while the "home to do" is in the office.
If you suddenly remember something that you have to do at work while you're watering the lawn in the evening, for example, don't rush into your office to do it. Write it down on your "work to do" list, and bring the list with you when you enter the office the next morning. Do the reverse if you remember you have to pick up a prescription when you're in the midst of a business project. Note it on your "home to do" list, and at lunch time or after work, head for the drugstore. Somehow, writing down a worry removes it as a distraction. It gives you license to say to yourself, "That's enough of that right now. I'll take care of it later."
*Set working guidelines for yourself. Workaholics who just can't seem to leave their home offices find that setting a computer-generated alarm to go off at a specific time (say 6 p.m.) works well. It forces them to close up shop and make the transition back to the home--especially if it beeps again every few minutes until the computer is shut down. Other entrepreneurs use family members as their alarms. "Stay out of the office until 5 p.m., but then come and get me" is the order many issue to babysitters or teenagers. Still others cover their computers and fax machines when they leave the office at the end of the day. All these actions signal that the business day has ended.
*Use your phone system to draw the line between home and office. Ed Eisen has three lines in his office--a business line, a fax line and a home line--but the ringer on his home phone is turned off during business hours. And limiting the ring and the accessibility of your business line in your home means you won't be tempted to pick it up if it rings at 7 p.m. and you're in the middle of dinner. Most businesses don't require round-the-clock servicing; an answering machine or voice-mail system can pick up after-hour messages. If you have to be available for crises, however, Sizemore suggests an emergency paging system. "People don't like to use [an emergency] number unless there's a true emergency," she says, "whereas they'll call at all hours of the evening if you pick up your business line as a matter of course."
*Commute. Even though many entrepreneurs run businesses from their homes to avoid the commute, some create an artificial one to draw a mental distinction between home and work. In New York City, one writer walks five blocks to the subway each morning, buys a paper, and then comes back to his apartment to work. He uses his "commute" to plan and organize his workday. Others leave "the office" each evening and go to the store, out for a walk, or pick up the kids before coming home again. And Eisen's three-times-a-week workouts after work at a gym half an hour away not only provide him with an emotional and physical distance from work . . . but also help him ease the transition between his two adjacent worlds.
When Ed Eisen steps into his home office, he's going through a mental door, not a real one. The real door is just a folding one that's always open to the rest of the house. "I'd feel claustrophobic if it were closed," he says.
Inside, Eisen has no problem getting down to work as a public relations and marketing communications consultant. The photos and the mementos in his Philadelphia office remind him of his accomplishments as an entrepreneur and as a former reporter. Eisen's walls are adorned with a picture of him and Senator Ted Kennedy, a signed photo of Philadelphia's former mayor Frank Rizzo, and a framed Time magazine cover featuring one of his clients. A red boxing glove signed by former world heavyweight champion Joe Frazier sits on a nearby bookshelf.
"I never realized it before," Eisen says, "but it's the décor that helps me make the transition from home to work."
Contact Sources
Eisen & Associates, (215) 745-4168, email@example.com
PRowrite, (949) 366-9189, firstname.lastname@example.com
Patricia Schiff Estess is author of Money Advice for Your Successful Remarriage and Kids, Money & Values (both published by Betterway) and president of Working Families Inc., a New York City firm specializing in family memoirs.


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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:34 pm
Post subject: alone in paris... ideas?
hey all, its been a long time since i've posted but that's because i've been studying abroad in scotland. i'll tell you soon about all the things i've been cooking and eating here (ahhhh british food...) but the reason i'm writing is that i'm headed to paris on my own on the 21st of april till the 25th. i'll be staying in monmartre. i was wondering a few things. first of all, what you would reccomend i do, in general and food wise, two, if any of you will be there at that time and would be interested in a sight-seeing, walking, or dinner companion and three if you know of any cool food-related activities to do while i am there. i am really excited but also afraid because being alone is not my strong suit, and i don't speak any french (although i'm fluent in spanish!). any ideas, thoughts, etc would be greatly apreciated!
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just to let you know, also, that my aol screen name is nanzzee if any of you want tot alk about this online! thanks so much i'd really appreciate any ideas that you have cuz i'm soooooo nervous!
love, anna
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 5:16 pm
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Hi Anna,
I'll be soloing also, but unfortunately our trips won't coincide.
Please check the topics on food neighborhoods and paris markets for some ideas of "foodie" things to do
Other ideas I came up with include taking advantage of the Paris Walks program. They cost 10 euros each and you don't need a reservation but you'll be with a group and English speaking guide. You might meet up with a possible lunch companion.
I am also taking an English language cooking class, many of these have market tours and/or gourmet walking tours as options. I believe there is a topic on that, too. For other foodie ideas, check out the C&Z archives and Patrica Wells site. If you are looking for a quick immersion, the Rue Cler neighboorhood in the 7e is a great place to start. Don't overlook the food halls on the Bon Marche and Galleries de Lafayette department stores for one-stop bliss. There are lots more specific stores as well, but be sure to hit one of the open markets.
the official Paris tourist site which is now called parisinfo.com has lots of ino and links in English and is a good general place to start to get info
Also, Pariscope (published every Weds) supposedly has an English language insert with entertainment listings.
I have lots of websites and other recommendations, let me know what your interests/concerns are and I'll be glad to send them to you.
After all my resesarch and reassurances from C&Z members, I think you can have a thrilling, safe visit solo to Paris. I have no qualms about it for myself.
Write us and tell us what you did when you get back!
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 7:41 pm
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Hello Anna,
Being alone in Paris has it's advantages and , yes, also its disadvantages.
One of the advantages is that you can "flaner"- walk around , at you own pace, enter any store you fancy and linger on a bench as long as you want. Paris is for walking. I don't know your age or your span of interest, but I can only tell you what i did when I was young and sometimes alone in Paris: I'll decide each day on a specific quarter e.g. the latin quarter , St. germain de pres, Le Marais, the Halles , Champs elisees and Faubourg St Honore ( the open and free museum of french fashion), the Grands Boulevards and Rue de la Paix , Montmartre, even the new Defence complex. I would try to see the special exibitions ( try Pariscope or Time out ), especially those in small museums, I would sit down at a famous cafes and look at the people passing by ( e.g. Flore, Deux Magots in St Germain, Cafe de la paix near the opera, La Coupole , Dome or Select in the Montparnasse area) , and have at least one meal in a Brasserie- I usually buy a newspaper, I choose a nice place with a view towars the restaurant and Enjoy peacefully a full meal . Being alone, it's more confortable for lunch, or late lunch, it's not too crowded. The Brasseries are open all day
( Bofinger near the Marais is special, if somehow expensive ). For lunch you can also take a break in one of the gardens - Tuilleries, or Luxembourg, or the Seine banks. Be sure to buy before a fresh baguette, a camember and/or some slices of Jambon, something to drink and indulge yourself in dreaming of being a Parisian. It works, even is it's a cliche.
Now, you just do what's good for you. Have a nice stay
P.S. I found scottish food quite good compared with the english one
No more war, more paris holidays!
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Want to maybe meet with a local while you are solo in Paris? Try this organization. I found the info on the city of Paris website, english section,
"You are in Paris for the first time or you are back for the fourth, you have time and you want a real exchange ?
Association of travellers, our adherents permit to you, for free and by the way of different activities to meet some Parisians and like that to learn a little bit about themselves and their culture.
To apply : call us !
ABM, phone number : 01 45 45 22 00 "
Link to ABM's website : »
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Alone in Paris- I'm not sure that the English language Time out section still exists at the back of the Pariscope, but it is still a helpful resource. If you are interested in film, I would recommend trying to see something playing at the Action Christine on the left bank, cute little cinema that does good director retrospectives (remember its old style so you need to tip the usher). Also before or after the movie I would head to the little Japanese area in the 1st, around Rue Therese and Rue Ste Anne, its a small jumble of streets with a bunch of great ramen noodle stores, try some Gyoza too, delicious and cheap. If you like the Japanese thing, go to Toraya (they have an english site on the web), the set menu for lunch is always delicious, it is superstylish and it would be fine to go there on your own. They are at Rue Saint-Florentin, near Rue Ste Honore- defnitely an area worth a look around. You'll find a multitude of amazing places to eat, but don't miss out on going to LaDuree, for the absolute best macarons in the world- they also have beautiful boxes so it is a nice place to buy presents for others if you need to. If you go to the Musee D'Orsay, I would recommend starting at the top and working your way down, of course it depends on what you like, but that's my advice. Additionally, with the Louvre, unless you are super keen on the old French and Dutch paintings, start off by going downstairs and checking out the Ottoman (? I think) tiles and the really early sculptures. Eat in the Parks- go to the Palais Royale, the Luxembourg gardens etc. Time Out guide to paris is good. Another excellent place to go is L'Atelier of Joel Robichon- everyone sits at the bar and the food is excellent- and lots of single, non-french speaking diners- it is a bit chi chi though. Have fun!
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The time has come. William "Will" Wilson is off to pastures new. Literally, in this case, for our esteemed deputy editor is fleeing the warm bosom of Steel Media to look after the My Horse community, and something to do with breaking their backs. Takes all sorts.
Will came on board the runaway PG train way back in the distant mists of September 2009. Sadly, we've had to decommission his third-anniversary cake mere days before the event. Such is life.
If you can cast your minds back to Will's curiously unheralded arrival, he started off as a humble freelancer, gleefully trotting out sparkling copy, while making 'hire me' eyes at Rob. And hire him we did, handing him the prestigious title of smartphone editor shortly thereafter.
Fast-forward nearly two years to August 2011, and it was fairly obvious to anyone with vaguely functioning eyeballs that he was pretty damned good at this word-writing lark. Thus, he was promoted to deputy editor.
Body of evidence
Over the course of his ludicrously busy tenure, The Mighty Wilson built up a fearsome body of work: 299 reviews, an almighty 1,282 news stories, 115 previews, 75 features, and 16 interviews, to be exact. That's a lot of words about mobile games - you should have seen his Skype chat logs as well. WORDS.
He was even a bit of a charmer behind the microphone, with his silky radio voice audible on more than 100 podcasts. Such talents have been duly recognised, with the PG podcast recently picking up a nomination at the forthcoming Games Media Awards.
But, rather than help him fulfil his late-night radio DJ destiny, those fine folks over at NaturalMotion decided his talents would be best used managing its feisty community of drag-racing, horse-whispering, back-breaking, Jenga-meddling game fiends.
Will Wilson said of his tumultuous tenure: "It has been an absolute pleasure working with such a fantastic crew these past (almost) three years, and writing for such a brilliant (and handsome) audience."
"I started out reviewing Java titles (remember them?) and the occasional DS original game (remember that?), so I've been fortunate enough to have covered the mobile and portable industries as they transformed into the powerhouse of gaming they are today. I've also had about a million jokes cut from my first drafts, much to my annoyance."
"But, now I'm off to move to neighhh-bouring Oxford and 'race' onto a new chapter in my life... Okay, I'm starting to get why you all keep cutting my jokes out.
"Can I do a 'the birthday cake is a lie' one? What do you mean 'no'?"
Pocket Gamer editor-in-chief Kristan Reed said of Will's departure: "I've only managed to clock up a piddling seven months working alongside Will, but it has been a pleasure throughout."
"He's one of the good guys, and he even respectfully allowed me to win the punching competition at last week's Pocket Gamer Gamescom party. That's the kind of guy he is. [*cough* yes, yes, I did - Will]"
"I wish him all the best with the new job, and with finding somewhere to park the car in Oxford city centre. And with breaking horses' backs. Weirdo," Reed added.
Taking over from Will is the pleasantly fragrant Mark Brown, who has picked up admiring glances from some of the most respected names in games editorial. And not just for his beaming face and sublime beard.
On the prospect of taking over the still-warm chair from Will, outgoing PG features ed Mark said: "I'm very excited to be taking the the helm here at Pocket Gamer, and I'm looking forward to discovering the future of handheld and mobile games."
"And while Will can gloat all he wants about CSR Racing's $12-million-a-month revenue, we all know that freemium is a fad and will blow over soon, right? Right?"


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Despite having its 33 dual-meet winning streak snapped last month by Division 1 power Nashoba Regional, Narragansett Regional and junior Renee Capps are happy with how the season is going. The fourth-ranked Warriors, despite being riddled by injuries, are 11-2 overall and 3-1 in the Wachusett A heading into today's tri-meet against Lunenburg and host Ayer-Shirley.
Narragansett, runner-up at last November's Central Mass. Division 2 championships, dropped a 25-30 decision to the Chieftains on Sept. 18 and a 26-29 heartbreaker to Tyngsboro High four days later.
Renee and her twin sister, Anna Capps, hadn't experienced a dual-meet loss since they were eighth-graders. Renee admitted the defeats stung her teammates initially, but said they've moved on.
"We weren't expecting a loss," she said. "The injuries came at the wrong time. It was poor timing on that. I think we'll be OK with the bigger meets coming up. We're not too worried. Both times, we didn't have all our best runners. Some people were injured so they weren't able to perform and they dropped back. You have to get past the bad meets."
"All records are made to be broken," Narragansett coach Joe DiMucci said. "What matters is what happens in November. There are three or four girls who have been hurt, but other kids have plugged in those spots."
DiMucci praised seniors Krista Webb and Amanda Stewart, juniors Kylie Chartier and Michelle Beaulieu, and sophomores Julie Moore and Jasmine Bancroft for stepping up. Anna Capps, the team captain, is competing despite a painful back injury and is just starting to return to running shape.
"I pulled my lower back muscle in spring track," she said. "It's hurt me a lot (this fall). I sat out the first three or four meets of the season. I've sat out the majority of the practices because I didn't want to hurt myself early on. I'm over a minute off my time, but I'm slowly getting back to where I should be."
Anna finished second at last year's Quabbin Invitational, fifth at the Central Mass. Division 2 Championships (18:36.7), and 19th at All-States (19:34). She recalls first injuring her back as a freshman and wishes she could go back in time and change what happened.
"I was fooling around at (spring track) practice and I jumped over a couple of hurdles," Anna said. "I'm not a hurdler, obviously. I tweaked my back and pulled something in my lower back on the right side.
"I'll go a season without any pain," added Anna, who is in physical therapy. "It held out my sophomore year in cross-country and winter track, but I re-pulled it practicing the long jump last spring and I missed the league meet and districts in the 2 mile."
What's most frustrating is that doctors can't figure out what's wrong. An MRI came back negative. Her back felt OK during the summer, but started hurting again in Narragansett's season opener. Anna fears the pain is going be a recurring problem into adulthood.
"I have pain down my leg, but they don't know what it is," she said. "It just keeps coming back. I just want to get through high school and college, but it's really getting in the way at this point. I don't want to deal with it right now."
"When she's not injured," Renee said, "we're like a second apart. I think we're pretty even."
A healthy Renee, meanwhile, is deservedly the Warriors' No. 1 runner.
In 2011, she won the Quabbin Invitational (18:03.3), finished eighth at the CMass Championships (18:46.4), and 10th at All-States in 19:08 — the best time of any Central Mass. runner. Her personal best on Narragansett's grueling and hilly 3.1-mile course is 21:26.
"I like their work ethic," DiMucci said. "They're always training and doing all the right things."
The seventh-ranked Bromfield School boys are 9-0 heading into yesterday's home meet against Littleton High. The Trojans, Mid-Wach C champions a year ago, were third behind champion Hopedale High and runner-up Whitinsville Christian at last November's Central Mass. D2 Championships.
Bromfield, which competes at this Saturday's Wachusett Invitational, last won a CMass championship in 2002. That year, the Trojans placed second at All-States.
If coach Kevin Foster thinks this year's team can duplicate what its predecessor accomplished a decade ago, he's not saying.
"I think we're going to take it one step at a time," Foster said.
Foster said Hopedale, Whitinsville Christian and Sutton High all have very good runners so he's keeping his fingers crossed that his young harriers will shine on the trails at Gardner Municipal Golf Course.
"The kids will have to work for it," Foster said.
Bromfield should be a favorite to win the Wachusett A league meet, but Foster said any of the schools could come out on top.
"Even though we're 9-0, a lot of these races have been hotly contested," Foster said. "It should be very competitive. You could have the No. 1 runner but not win it (as a team)."
Foster lost his top two runners, Nick Kronauer and Ellis Toll, to graduation, but sophomore sensation Price Day returned and is the Trojans' No. 1 harrier.
Senior captains Jared Gall and Ian Harrington have impressed Foster with their leadership.
Today's meet will be Bromfield's first at home at the new 2.7-mile course at Fruitlands Museum.


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Dean Cain on ex McCready's suicide: 'I'm not surprised'
A famous ex of Mindy McCready's is speaking out.
Dean Cain, who was engaged to the singer for about a year starting in 1997, tells People, "I'm saddened to hear of her passing, but I'm not surprised."
Apparently, it wasn't drugs and alcohol that ultimately forced the former Lois & Clark star to break off their union, but McCready's manipulative, dishonest behavior. "She was never abusive or addictive with me, but red flags were everywhere," he tells the magazine. "I saw all the bad signs and told her to get out." To escape the situation, he had to leave his own home for a hotel. "Everything she did was a manipulation of sorts. She would just get combative."
"I can't paint too pretty a picture," Cain, 46, adds. "She would start arguments, start drama. Things weren't allowed to be good."
Cain, who fathered a son with a later girlfriend, cut McCready out. "When I did speak to her, truth didn't come out," he says. "She was kind of poisonous and not somebody I was going to have in my life anymore – or anywhere around my son."
As for McCready's sons, Cain is heartbroken. "My first thought was of the poor kids. To think about the legacy those boys have been left, it's just tragic. ... All her troubles were self-inflicted. She had everything. She was a tremendous talent but everything about it was a waste."


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in reply to Re^2: Maintaining a CPAN Module.
in thread Maintaining a CPAN Module.
Bitbucket is my preference also. Mercurial has a very Subversion-like command-line interface (just need to remember to type "hg" instead of "svn"). The only main difference is that with Subversion, "commit" will send your changes to the remote server; in Mercurial (and other distributed version control systems like git), "commit" only commits changes to your local copy; you use "push" to send committed changes to a remote server.
Once you get used to that, you'll come to love it. With Subversion, if you're coding on a train, plane or some other place with no Internet access, you can't do commits. You just need to do one big commit once you have network. With Mercurial (or git, etc) you can do lots of little commits for each change you make, and then push them once you have network.
There is a fantastic Mercurial plugin too called "hggit". This allows you to pull from and push to git repositories. I use it to create github mirrors of my repositories. That way I get to use the tools I want (Mercurial, Bitbucket), but still take advantage of collaboration with github's enormous user base.


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Havoc from hurricane comes early to Houston's freeways
Sixteen hours to San Antonio and Dallas. Eleven hours to Austin. With over a million people trying to flee vulnerable parts of the Houston area, Hurricane Rita will be a nightmare even if Galveston doesn't take a direct hit. .
Trying to leave Houston on I-10, Ella Corder drove 15 hours to go just 13 miles today. Noticing cars out of gas littering the freeway, she turned off her air-conditioner to save fuel, but the 52-year-old heart patient worried the heat and exhaustion were taking a toll on her.
"All I want to do is go home," she said tearfully by cell phone. "Can't anyone get me out of here? "
Other evacuees' frustration turned into anger as the day wore on.
"This is the worst planning I've ever seen," said Julie Anderson, who covered just 45 miles in 12 hours after setting out from her home in the Houston suburb of LaPorte. "They say we've learned a lot from Hurricane Katrina. Well, you couldn't prove it by me."
Hoping to speed the evacuation that officially began yesterday, authorities decided today to open the incoming lanes of two Houston freeways, I-45 and I-10, to outbound traffic for the first time ever. Plans to reverse the traffic flow on U.S. 290 were abandoned because of traffic problems it would create in Brenham and Giddings.
When all lanes of I-45 became outbound lanes north of Conroe early this afternoon, traffic immediately sped up. Like grocery shoppers jockeying for the fastest-moving checkout lines, northbound drivers were criss-crossing the freeway median in search of faster-moving lanes.
Drivers weren't willing to wait for the same to happen on I-10. Near Sealy, a stream of motorists who heard of the plan on their radios pulled into the inbound lanes and drove off. Their impromptu traffic management plan raised everyone's average speed from stop and go to 55 mph. At least for a while.
Travelers reported that occasional stretches of freeways flowing almost briskly around the area would inexplicably turn into parking lots as the day dragged on.
Where traffic came to a halt, fathers and sons got out of their cars and played catch on freeway medians. Others stood next to their cars, videotaping the scene, or walked between vehicles, chatting with people along the way. Tow trucks tried to wend their way along the shoulders, pulling stalled cars out of the way. People laid down for naps in parking lots.
An elderly woman caught in a traffic jam in Fort Bend County died, apparently from the heat. Katy police, meanwhile, arrested a woman they said lost her cool on the freeway and assaulted another woman, who may have suffered a broken arm.
While some motorists had no problem finding gasoline, others reported going from station to station in search of fuel, and police officers along the highways were carrying gasoline to help people get out of town. Refineries in Houston stopped pumping gasoline and diesel into delivery trucks last night so they could prepare for the hurricane themselves, according to Houston's largest distributor, Sun Coast Resources.
It took Tiffany Heikkila 11 hours to drive with her 5-year-old son from Sugar Land to Austin. She left at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and saw gas station lines backed up all the way to the exit ramps. Motel parking lots were packed, too.
"All along the way, cars were pulled off on the shoulder with drivers sleeping. They had their doors open with one foot hanging out of the car.."
Gary and Sunni Markowitz left Bellaire at 5:30 a.m. today but after six hours were only 20 miles into their trip to Austin.
With three children and a nanny in tow, they had run through three DVDs and all the snacks in the minivan. Their two-year-old was crying. A friend who was following them in another car with two children had already turned around for home, and they were seriously thinking about it themselves.
Countless others regretted their decision to leave. After nearly 14 hours on the road with her husband, two sons and dog, and nowhere near their destination of Paris, Chava Buse was ready to return to their Sugar Land home. They family stopped at five gas stations in a futile search for fuel before finding long lines and flaring tempers as people waited in the scorching heat to pay.
"I'd rather get hit by a hurricane,'' said a frustrated Buse this afternoon as she sat in her extended cab pickup truck at a crowded Shell station at Texas 242 and I-45 in The Woodlands. "I told my husband five times, let's turn back.''
"This has been so trying,'' she said. "It was fun at first. People were having picnics along the highway. Now it's getting old . . . I'm running on adrenalin.Sarah Granbery made the decision to give it up relatively early on. The Rice Village resident had forced herself up early to head for a friend's home in Nacogdoches at 6 a.m. She had a full tank of gas, but less patience for the parking lot that was U.S. 59 North.
When she hit the Crosstimbers exit, she gave up and headed back.
"I guess we should have left Monday,'' she said.
Those able to get out of town were encountering yet another headache today: Hotels hours inland were filling up quickly, all the way to the Oklahoma and Arkansas line.
John Decker, 47, decided to board up his home and hunker down because he could not find a hotel room.
"I've been calling since yesterday morning all the way up to about 1 this morning. No vacancies anywhere,'' he said. "I checked all the way from here to Del Rio to Eagle Pass. I called as far as Lufkin, San Marcos, San Angelo. The only place I didn't call was El Paso. By the time you reach El Paso, it's almost time to turn back.''
Some travelers without hotel reservations, however, discovered sudden vacancies made possible only because others gave up evacuation plans out of frustration.
Rene Alaniz of Katy counted herself lucky because her family's journey to Austin from Katy took only 10 hours, often on dirt roads, and ended at at a Holiday Inn with unexpected vacancies.
New Orleans native Janice Armstrong, an evacuee of Hurricane Katrina, had worse luck. Again. She was turned out of her downtown Houston motel this afternoon. Motel workers shut the building on West Dallas, saying it's too likely to flood.
The decision leaves Armstrong, who lived at the George R. Brown Center for more than two weeks after fleeing Katrina, homeless again. The 45-year-old teaching assistant struggled this afternoon to find a cab to take her to the south Houston apartment where one of her daughters and two of her grandchildren have been staying.
"This is a mess,'' said Armstrong.
Along the Gulf Coast, federal, state and local officials tried to heed the bitter lessons of Katrina: better safe than sorry. Hundreds of buses were dispatched to evacuate the poor. Hospital and nursing home patients were cleared out. And truckloads of water, ice and ready-made meals, and rescue and medical teams were put on standb
Noting that the traffic jams at least show residents are heeding the call to evacuate, Harris County Judge Robert Eckels said today it's not too late to leave.
"Don't follow the example of Katrina and wait,'' Eckels said. "During the storm, we will not be able to get to you."
Some are already saying, however, that the evacuation didn't have to be this bad.
Houston City Councilman M.J. Kahn wondered today why the Texas Department of Transportation didn't reverse the traffic flow on freeways when the evacuation order was given Tuesday.
"Why wasn't TxDot on the same page?" he asked. "Yesterday morning that should have been part of the plan
Unlike Kahn, some evacuees were blaming Houston's mayor.
Margaret Searle Robert and her family gave up on their effort to evacuate to Fort Worth today after spending all morning on I-45. She said her family will reluctantly ride out the storm in their historic 85-year old home in the Eastwood neighborhood near downtown Houston.
"We spent six hours trying to go from downtown to Richey Road. Six hours -- that's called 'Shame on you Mayor Bill White,''' Robert said.
Officials in coastal counties south of Houston were questioning why Houston called for such an early mandatory evacuation of its residents in Clear Lake and east side neighborhoods along the Ship Channel. By beginning evacuations on Wednesday, said Brazoria County Judge John Willy, more vulnerable coastal residents were prevented from making a quick exodus through Houston and to their shelters further inland.
Fort Bend County Judge Bob Hebert criticized the state government after the county recorded its first evacuation-related casualty. Hebert said the county's fuel stocks have been reduced by half because so many of its emergency vehicles are on the road.
"The state refuses to help us to get any fuel, so we can't help get the folks off the road," he said. "So I'm afraid we are going to have more people die in their car,'' he said.
Noting that the clogged roads at least mean that people are heeding the call to evacuate, Eckels said he recognized the frustration of evacuee traffic stacked bumper-to-bumper for up to 100 miles north of Houston this morning before the inbound lanes were reversed. He reminded evacuees that the storm is still 48 hours out, leaving plenty of time for motorists stuck in traffic to complete their escapes.
"We still have time to clean out these roads,'' he said.
People unable to escape low-lying areas in Houston on their own were urged to call the city's 311 hot line, and the mayor said 10,000 people have called. Throughout the night the city was sending buses to get them out, but people were still told they needed to count on family, friends and neighbors.
White reiterated that there is no safe place to stay in low-lying and flood-prone areas of the city, and there won't be shelters in the city.
"There will be no central place for people to go,'' White said.
Wilma Skinner would like to scream at city officials. If only someone would pick up their phone.
"I done called for a shelter, I done called for help. There ain't none. No one answers,'' she said, standing in blistering heat outside a check-cashing store that had just run out of its main commodity. "Everyone just says, 'Get out, get out.' I've got no way of getting out. And now I've got no money.''
"All the banks are closed and I just got off work,'' said Thomas Visor, holding his sweaty paycheck as he, too, tried to get inside the store, where more than 100 people fretted in line. "This is crazy. How are you supposed to evacuate a hurricane if you don't have money? Answer me that?''
Some without cars could afford bus tickets but were still stuck. The crush of people seeking to get out of Hurricane Rita's path spurred Greyhound Bus Lines to halt ticket sales at its main Houston terminal today.
"Too many people are showing up,'' said company spokesman Eric Wesley in Dallas. "We want people to know that they shouldn't come to the terminal to buy a ticket. There's no more room on the buses.''
Javier Garcia, 49, and his wife, Alicia, waited for inspiration outside Greyhound but gave up and went to sit under the shade of the nearby Pierce Elevated, where those hoping for bus rides loitered today as the slow-moving flow of I-45 evacuees droned on overhead.
"Maybe we'll get a bus tomorrow," said Javier, who works as a security guard downtown. The two live in a flood-prone house along Broadway in southeast Houston and decided they needed to catch a bus anywhere inland.
"They shouldn't leave us out here in the sun like this," said Rubi Gonzalez, who carried her 1-year-old son. "Now I know how the people in New Orleans felt."
Those lucky enough to have plane tickets out of Houston encountered frustrations on a smaller order.
At Houston's two airports, scores of Transportation Security Administration luggage checkers failed to show up to work, creating snarls at baggage checkpoints even as anxious residents were lining up to fly out of Houston.
The problems with getting out of Houston airports were exacerbated by people showing up with no reservations trying to get on flights, and those with reservations packing enormous amounts of baggage that slowed the search process.
Hobby's parking lots quickly reached capacity, and Bush's lots were nearly full this afternoon. People sat on floors in the hallways; trash cans overflowed; gift shops and all but one restaurant were closed. Travelers waited in a nearly block-long line for food at the open Subway shop.
In Galveston, meanwhile, City Manager Steve LaBlanc estimated that 90 percent of the town's 57,000 residents have evacuated.
"This city is a ghost town right now," he said. "You could drive 80 mph down the sea wall."
Galveston called in five more school buses this morning to pick up stragglers.
Before boarding this morning, Galveston native Mike Johnson said his brother offered to take him out Tuesday but he dragged his feet.
"I know this going to be a bad one, but I wanted to wait and make sure."
Tommy Green, an evacuee from Louisiana, also boarded a bus to a Huntville shelter this morning.
After surviving two days on his rooftop in San Bernard Parish in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he has since moved to Dallas to Oklahoma to Galveston, where he has relatives.
"I just can't believe this happening again," he said.
It was also unsettling for some Galveston County inmates, close to completing their jail time, who were unexpectedly freed today. Among those trying to fend for themselves was a perplexed Peter Ennis, who had served all but a few days of his six-month sentence for drug possession.
"I guess I'm going to start walking,'' said Ennis, 32. "I'm going to walk over the causeway. My grandmother is going to meet me on the other side and we'll ride out the storm at the house in Santa Fe."
Nearly 100 miles up the road, far fewer have packed up to leave, but many Woodlands residents pulled out their saws and nails and began boarding up their homes.
Candido Benavides, who lived near the Gulf Coast for 23 years, just moved into his new home in the Harper's Landing neighborhood about a month ago and didn't want to take any chances.
"We just moved from League City. I know what things are like. I've experienced the high winds,'' said Benavides.
He said he stocked up on supplies, including plywood and water as he drove back home from Dallas, where he was attending a conference.
"I hit the Sam's. I hit the Wal-Mart and the Lowe's and Home Depot,'' he said.
Norman Buckley, who lives across the street, went to a nearby Lowe's to get plywood this morning and it was out of everything. Another shipment of plywood came in later, but the store rationed 10 sheets per customer, said Buckley, holding a circular saw and wearing protective goggles, ready to cut wood.
"I grew up in La Porte," he said. "I've been putting up shutters all my life."
Closer to downtown Houston, James York, a Vietnam veteran and self-described country boy, said he was going to stay in his Sunnyside home, too. He had some water, oil for a lamp, and of course plywood.
"It's a normal day for me," he said. "I'd rather be here in the safety of my own home.'"
York said his street has never flooded so he'd rather take his chances here. But he has said his prayers just in case.
"It's always a first time for something," he said. "I don't think people should live in fear."
Hours later, at 8:15 p.m. Corder was still in traffic, still trying to get home to Belton, which is near Austin.
Initially planning to take U.S. 290 to get here, she instead had to find another route when traffic on the West Loop became too congested. Her detour to the Westbound Katy Freeway was just as bad, she soon found out.
She'd passed the Highway 6 mark when she found out that the contraflow lanes - allowing westbound traffic on the eastbound lanes - had opened. But each time she tried to enter the contraflow lanes through what she thought was an entrance ramp, police stopped her.
One officer explained that she would have to backtrack to Highway 6, saying that was the designated access point to the contraflow lanes. And getting back to Highway 6 would take about three hours, the officer said.
That's because she would have to drive east on the access road, which was just as congested.


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A website called CIAsavedlives has posted the following:
The recently released Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) Majority report on the CIA's Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation Program is marred by errors of facts and interpretation and is completely at odds with the reality that the leaders and officers of the Central Intelligence Agency lived through. It represents the single worst example of Congressional oversight in our many years of government service.
Astonishingly, the SSCI Majority staff interviewed no CIA officers responsible for establishing, implementing, or evaluating the program's effectiveness. Let us repeat, no one at the CIA was interviewed.
Worse, the Committee selectively used documents to try to substantiate a point of view where ample and contrary evidence existed. Over 5 years and at a cost of $40 million, the staff "cherry picked" through 6 million pages of documents to produce an answer they knew the Majority wanted. In the intelligence profession, that is called politicization.
The SSCI Majority would have the American people believe that the program was initiated by a rogue CIA that consistently lied to the President, the National Security Council, the Attorney General, and the Congress. Nothing could be further from the truth. Nothing.
We, as former senior officers of the Central Intelligence Agency, created this website to present documents that conclusively demonstrate that the program was: authorized by the President, overseen by the National Security Council, and deemed legal by the Attorney General of the United States on multiple occasions. None of those officials were interviewed either. None. CIA relied on their policy and legal judgments. We deceived no one. You will not find this truth in the Majority Report.
Absent from the report is any discussion of the context the United States faced after 9/11. This was a time we had solid evidence that al Qaida was planning a second wave of attacks against the U.S.; we had certain knowledge that bin Laden had met with Pakistani nuclear scientists and wanted nuclear weapons; we had reports that nuclear weapons were being smuggled into New York City; and we had hard evidence that al Qaida was trying to manufacture anthrax. It felt like a "ticking time bomb" every single day.
In this atmosphere, time was of the essence. We had a deep responsibility to do everything within the law to stop another attack. We clearly understood that, even with legal and policy approvals, our decisions would be questioned years later. But we also understood that we would be morally culpable for the deaths of fellow citizens if we failed to gain information that could stop the next attacks.
The report defies credulity by saying that the interrogation program did not produce any intelligence value. In fact, the program led to the capture of senior al Qaida leaders, including helping to find Usama bin Ladin, and resulted in operations that led to the disruption of terrorist plots that saved thousands of American and allied lives.
Finally, Congress was in the loop. The so-called "Gang of Eight" of top Congressional leaders were briefed in detail on the program. The briefings were detailed and drew reactions that ranged from approval to no objection to encouragement to be even more aggressive. Again, none of this context appears in the Majority's report.
Our views are shared by the current CIA and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Republican Minority, both of which have released rebuttals to the Majority's report. Both critiques are clear-eyed, fact-based assessments which challenge the Majority's contention in a nonpartisan way. We urge all Americans to read them carefully before reaching any judgments.


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Well I'm writing this for fun, no it's not homework.
So anyway, it's basically a Sudoku Solver.
I intend to have it solve a Sudoku by finding obvious pairs;
As in naked pairs : Solving Sudoku
That's a naked pair; A cell with only 1 possible number.
So far I have a Cell class, and withing that class I have a method that creates 81 instances of itself:
And then it occured to me;
How on Earth would I assign it values;
I was brainstorming, and thought that perhaps there could be a method that scans a row, returns an array of the nonzero numbers in the row, same for the column, and a 3*3 region, or box.
I'm not sure how I would code that, seeing as I am a O.K. programmer, I could use a little help, and if someone could just help me out by giving me some idea on how to do this, code etc, that would be great!
This is not homework, I code in my free time. Help would be very appreciated
import java.util.ArrayList; public class Cell { boolean isnull=false; int value; int xloc; int yloc; int possiblevalues[] = new int[] {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}; Cell[] cellarray = new Cell[81]; ArrayList signs = new ArrayList(40); public void assignvaluesandloc(){ int x = 0; Cell[] cellarray = new Cell[81]; GetDataMethods g = new GetDataMethods(); int currentnumber = 0; for (int row = 0; row <= 8; row++) { for(int col = 0; col <= 8; col++) { cellarray[x] = new Cell(); cellarray[x].value=g.newboard[row][col]; cellarray[x].xloc=row; cellarray[x].yloc=col; x++; } } } public void getcellvalue(){ } }